"LIFE," BARBARA RECALLED BB, 38.
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO" Ibid., 39.
WORRIED, BARBARA TOOK THE LITTLE GIRL Ibid.
BUSH WAS AT THE ECTOR COUNTY COURTHOUSE LF, 68.
"I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS" Author interview with GHWB.
NEITHER HE NOR BARBARA Ibid.; BB, 39.
"WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?" Author interview with GHWB.
"YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES" Ibid.
THE BUSHES LOOKED AT EACH OTHER Ibid.
"YOU DON'T HAVE A CHOICE" Ibid. See also Wicker, GHWB, 10.
THE BUSHES DROVE HOME BB, 40.
BUSH SAID HE NEEDED TO STOP OFF Ibid.
THE NEXT MORNING, THE BUSHES LEFT GEORGIE AND JEB Ibid.
SUTTON PLACE Ibid.
THERE WERE BONE MARROW TESTS Author interview with GHWB.
"GOD, THE POOR LITTLE GIRL" Ibid.
"ROBIN DOES UNFORTUNATELY HAVE LEUKEMIA" GHWB to Harold Dorris, August 4, 1953, JB.
"GAMPY WALKER WAS A SCARY OLD MAN" BB, 43.
ROBIN AT FIRST HEARD THE NAME Ibid.
ON A BRIEF VISIT TO KENNEBUNKPORT Ibid.
CALLING THEM "SUPERMAN" BROTHERS Ibid.
TAKE HER HOME TO MIDLAND Ibid.
"LEUKEMIA WAS NOT A WELL-KNOWN DISEASE" BB, 43.
YET ROBIN COULD SEEM SO BRIGHT LF, 69.
THE BUSHES DECIDED BB, 44.
SHE HAD TO WATCH OVER THEM Ibid.
"CHANGED HER WHOLE PERSONALITY" Author interview with GHWB.
WHEN BUSH WAS THERE Ibid.
BUSH'S YALE FRIEND THOMAS W. L. "LUD" ASHLEY BB, 42.
"I MEET HIM EVERY MORNING" Ibid.
NO TEARS IN FRONT OF ROBIN Ibid., 44.
"POOR GEORGE" Ibid.
"WE USED TO LAUGH" Ibid.
SENATOR BUSH CAME UP FROM WASHINGTON Ibid.
"THAT DARLING MAN" Ibid.
"RAGING THROUGH HER BODY" GHWB to Jonathan Bush, September 21, 1953, JB.
"THEY WANTED TO OPERATE AGAIN" Author interview with GHWB.
ROBIN WENT INTO A COMA BB, 44.
"ONE MINUTE SHE WAS THERE" Ibid.
BARBARA COMBED ROBIN'S HAIR Ibid.
HELD HER A LAST TIME Ibid.
A SMALL MEMORIAL SERVICE Ibid., 45.
HAD GIVEN HER TO RESEARCH Ibid.
BURIED ROBIN IN THE GRAVE HER GRANDFATHER HAD PREPARED Ibid.
IN THE UPSTAIRS BEDROOM Author interview with BPB.
AT CHRIST CHURCH Ibid.
"FOR ONE WHO ALLOWED" BB, 45.
"WE AWAKENED NIGHT AFTER NIGHT" Ibid., 46.
SAM HOUSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GWB, Decision Points, 6.
WERE CARRYING A RECORD PLAYER Ibid.
"I COULD HAVE SWORN" Ibid.
"MY MOM, DAD, AND SISTER ARE HOME" BB, 45.
REACHING THE OLDSMOBILE GWB, Decision Points, 6.
"SHE DIED" Ibid.
THE RIDE HOME Ibid.
IT WAS THE BEGINNING BB, 46.
"I HATED THAT NOBODY" Ibid.
"AT LEAST IT WASN'T YOUR FIRSTBORN" Ibid.
"GEORGE POINTED OUT" Ibid.
BUSH WOULD HOLD BARBARA Ibid.
THE YOUNGER GEORGE BUSH Ibid.
"I BET SHE CAN SEE" Ibid.
"THAT STARTED MY CURE" Ibid., 47.
"IT TAUGHT ME" Author interview with GHWB.
DOROTHY BUSH COMMISSIONED ATB, 81.
"SELFISHNESS TAKES OVER" Ibid.
ONE EVENING HE WENT "OUT ON THE TOWN" Ibid.
"YOU COULD WELL" Ibid.
THERE IS ABOUT OUR HOUSE A NEED Ibid., 8182.
READING THE LETTER ALOUD Author interview with GHWB.
CRYING SO HARD Author observation.
"WHEN I READ THAT" Author interview with GHWB.
"BUT LIFE GOES ON" Ibid.
SHE IS PLAYING NEXT TO A FOUNTAIN Author interview with GHWB. The caption details about the president's keeping the image in his Oval Office desk are from Patricia Presock.
ELEVEN: I Was Bleeding Inside I WORRIED A LOT IN THOSE DAYS Author interview with GHWB.
THE LIEDTKE BROTHERS LF, 60.
THE RESULT WAS A NEW COMPANY Ibid., 67.
HUGH LIEDTKE HAD A SIMPLE RULE OF THUMB Ibid.
AFTER THE MARLON BRANDO MOVIE Ibid.
UNDER THE ZAPATA NAME Ibid., 7071.
WEST JAMIESON FIELD Obituary of Hugh Liedtke, NYT, April 1, 2003.
BUSH STRUGGLED TO BUILD LF, 70; GHWB to Wayne Dean, August 4, 1958, Inter-Office Correspondence-Wayne H. Dean, 195459 (1), Business Correspondence File, ZAP.
PURSUING OFFSHORE OPPORTUNITIES GHWB to Wayne Dean, August 4, 1958, Inter-Office Correspondence-Wayne H. Dean, 195459 (1), Business Correspondence File, ZAP.
IN 1955, APPLYING FOR A $25,000 LOAN GHWB to Kline McGee, November 14, 1955, JB.
WHEN ZAPATA SHARES GHWB to Kline McGee, January 3, 1956, JB.
ZAPATA CONTRACTED WITH R. G. LETOURNEAU LF, 7173; GHWB to "Gentlemen," R. G. LeTourneau, February 14, 1957; and R. L. LeTourneau, Vice President, R. G. LeTourneau, Inc., to GHWB, January 8, 1957, both in Correspondence with LeTourneau, Miscellaneous-Waiver of Option (195657), and Business Correspondence File, ZAP.
ONE MORNING IN LONDON Author interview with GHWB. See also LSY, 87.
"IF WE LOST THIS" Author interview with GHWB.
BUSH FELT MISERABLE Ibid.
"DON'T WORRY, OLD CHAP" Ibid.
"I FELT LIKE HELL" Ibid.
"YOU'VE GOT A BLEEDING ULCER" Ibid.
"I WAS BLEEDING INSIDE" Ibid.
"WHAT DO YOU" Ibid.
(THE LITIGATION) Ibid.
EVERYTHING BUSH HEARD FROM HIS PARENTS LF, 81.
"POLITICS ENTERED INTO MY THINKING" Ibid. Timothy Naftali put the dynamic well, referring to Prescott as a "trendsetter...introducing the entire Bush family to politics." (Naftali, GHWB, 11.) G. H. "Bert" Walker III, Herbie Walker's son, once spent a summer living with Senator Bush in Washington. (Author interview with G. H. Walker III.) SOCIALLY MODERATE (AND SOMETIMES LIBERAL) Naftali, GHWB, 11. Naftali described Prescott as "a favorite with the elite of his party. He was a solid Eisenhower Republican-pragmatic, pro-business, but also procivil rights and socially liberal." In Herbert Parmet's view, "Prescott's Senate history showed that he was closer to the party's northeastern version, the most progressive wing of 'modern Republicanism,' which was less conservative than the [Eisenhower] administration in Washington. He really belonged to the Rockefeller wing, especially in its support for reforms." (LSY, 89.) The truth probably lies in between-a precursor, perhaps, of his son's own complicated political identity.
"HE WAS BASICALLY FULL" PSB, COHC, 149.
A STRONG ADVOCATE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S ROLE Ibid., 164.
ON CIVIL RIGHTS HE WAS A PROGRESSIVE Ibid., 128. See, for example, the following speeches and remarks made by Senator Prescott Bush on the floor of the Senate: "Civil Rights-The Republican Record," April 8, 1960, 86th Cong., Congressional Record 106: 776162; on integration in the public schools, March 15, 1956, 4753; 84th Cong., Congressional Record 102; and on the right to vote, July 31, 1957, 85th Cong., Congressional Record 103: 1313941. See also articles about his work as chairman of the Republican Platform Committee at the 1956 Republican Convention and efforts to promote a civil rights plank: NYT, July 31, August 12, and August 14, 1956.